Mathematical Physics Quotes

“Atheism is the opium of the mathematicians. Atheism is the religion of Mathematics.”
― Bill Gaede

“A mathematician says that an electromagnetic wave travels from Andromeda to your eye and that it also extends from Andromeda to your eye.”
― Bill Gaede

“Science is not about making predictions or performing experiments. Science is about explaining.”
― Bill Gaede

“A mathematician tells you that the wall of warped space prevents the Moon from flying out of its orbit yet can't tell you why an astronaut can go back and forth across that same space.”
― Bill Gaede

“A mathematician is an individual who proves his beliefs with equations.”
― Bill Gaede, Why God Doesn't Exist

“The general opinion in theoretical physics had accepted the idea that the principle of continuity ("natura non facit saltus"), prevailing in the microsoptic world, is merely simulated by an averaging process in a world which in truth is discontinuous by its very nature. This simulation is such that a man generally percieves the sum of many billions of elementary processes simultaneously, so that the leveling law of large numbers completely obscures the real nature of the individual processes.”
― John von Neumann, Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics

“A mathematician believes that describing the speed of Mercury with equations amounts to science.”
― Bill Gaede

“College is the grinding machine of the Mathematical Establishment, a conveyor belt that takes individuals from one cookie cutter to another so that the product comes within tight control limits out of the assembly line.”
― Bill Gaede

“You can recognize a mathematical physicist because he always asks you for your credentials or lists his without you asking for them.”
― Bill Gaede, Why God Doesn't Exist

“For decades relativists have in vain been searching for anti-gravity when it's been staring at them in their faces all this time: it's known as life.”
― Bill Gaede, Why God Doesn't Exist